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Gaia targets US

Published 10 August 2005

From Eric McCrossan

I am often amused by the relationship between separate articles in the same issue of New Scientist. Two of them struck me in the 16 July issue.

One was the long-running refusal of the US to recognise any truth in the threat of global warming due to human (disproportionately American) activity (p 3). The other was the suggestion that hurricane intensity and frequency is likely to increase, and may already have started to (p 4).

These two made me reconsider my rejection of the Gaia hypothesis. Has Gaia recognised where the problem is and is moving in to remove it?